Gabriele Klein

Gabriele Klein ( b. 1957 in Wanne- Eickel ) is a German sociologist, cultural and dance scholar.

Life

Gabriele Klein studied 1977-1987 sociology, history, sports, science, contemporary dance and education at the Universities of Bielefeld, Bochum and Essen as well as on the Amsterdam Theatre School ( Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten ). In 1990, she received her doctorate at the University of Bochum in social sciences. Her dissertation was published in 1992 under the title: women body dance. A civilization history of dance. Since the publication of her dissertation Gabriele Klein is one of the pioneers of dance studies in Germany. She qualified in 1998 with the 1999 published study: Electronic vibration. Pop culture theory. In 2002 she was appointed professor at the University of Hamburg. Since 2005 she leads there also the interdisciplinary Center for Performance Studies and the same postgraduate course ( www.performance.uni -hamburg.de ). She has taken numerous international guest professors.

Since 1994 she acts as director of various research projects and organizer of numerous national and international scientific events. Between 1997 and 2001 she was Chair of the Society for Dance Research.

Research

Gabriele Klein's research focuses on body, movement and dance, as well as research on popular culture research, performance studies, gender studies and urban studies. The products developed by their social science and gender- theoretical perspectives, for which it has received international awards were, in subsequent research extended mainly through studies of popular dance forms in youth and pop culture scenes, especially in the techno and hip- hop culture, Latin American Dance and Cultural performances, they mainly studied in everyday life, sports and the arts.

In the recent research focused on the globalization and transnationalization of dance cultures as well as the appropriation and embodiment of dance and movement patterns and their importance in different local contexts and urban cultures. Dance figurations Gabriele Klein sees as particular ways of social interactions in which the physicality of the social and which is the special feature clearly. Dance Research thus becomes a field of study for a sociology of the body. The outlines of this social science discipline has significantly influenced by their research Gabriele Klein.

Book Publications

Author

  • Woman dance. A civilization history of dance. (Hardcover) Beltz Quadriga, Weinheim, 1992; ( Paperback) Munich 1994.
  • Electronic vibration. Pop - Culture - theory. (Hardcover) Rogner & Bernhard at Zweitausendeins, Hamburg 1999; ( Paperback) VS Social Sciences 2004.
  • Is this real? The culture of hip-hop. 4th Edition, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / Main 2011 ( 2003) ( with Malte Friedrich).
  • Choreographic kit. Transcript, Bielefeld 2011 ( with Gitta Barthel and Esther Wagner).

Editor

  • Desire and deprivation. Bochum contributions to gender studies. Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1993 ISBN 3-89085-642- X ( with Annette Treibel ).
  • Civilization of the female self. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1997 ( with Catherine Liebsch ).
  • Dance visual media. Yearbook Dance Research Vol 10, LIT, Berlin and others, 2nd edition, 2002 ( 2000) ISBN 3- 8258-4448 -X
  • Dance theory text. Yearbook Dance Research Vol 12, LIT, Berlin et al 2002 ISBN 3-8258-5901-0 ( with Christa Zipprich ).
  • Movement. Social and cultural studies concepts. Transcript, Bielefeld 2004 ISBN 3-89942-199- X
  • City. Scenes. Artistic productions and theoretical positions. Passages, Vienna 2005 ISBN 978-3-85165-710-4
  • Performance. Positions to contemporary stage arts. Transcript, Bielefeld 2006 ISBN 978-3-89942-379-2 ( with Wolfgang Sting ).
  • Methods of Dance Studies. Model analyzes to Pina Bausch's " Rite of Spring ". Transcript, 2007 ISBN 3-89942-558-8 ( with Gabriele Brandstetter ).
  • Serious Games. On the political sociology of football. Transcript, Bielefeld 2008 ISBN 3-89942-977- X, ( with Michael Meuser ).
  • Movement space and urban culture. Social and cultural studies Perspektiven.Transcript, Bielefeld 2008 ISBN 3-8376-1021-7 ( with Jürgen Funke- Wieneke )
  • Tango in translation. Dance between media, culture, art and politics. Transcript, Bielefeld 2009 ISBN 978-3-8376-1204-2
  • Emerging Bodies. The performance of World Making in Dance and Choreography. Transcript, Bielefeld 2011 ISBN 978-3-8376-1596-8 ( with Sandra Noeth ).
  • On Labour and Performance. Performance Research, Vol 17, No 6, Routledge 2012 ( with Bojana Kunst ).
  • Dance (and) Theory. Transcript, Bielefeld 2013 ISBN 978-3-8376-2151-8 ( with Gabriele Brandstetter ).
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